Buzz 8 in 8: Busting 2020 Topps Heritage MLB cards (Hour 8)

Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 8 in 8 -- a series of a eight breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in as many hours today. We'll post one every hour ... this is Hour 8.

The box: 2020 Topps Heritage baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
First Buzz preview, SPs & checklist: Click here

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 9
Cards in this box: 71
Base set completion: 
64 of 400 (16 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Washington Nationals World Series champs, Buster Posey, Xander Bogaerts, Mike Moustakas, Luke Voit, Jose Quintana, Gerrit Cole, Carlos Correa, Stephen Strasburg

Rookie Cards (4 cards, 9 rookies) – Yordan Alvarez, Aristides Aquino, Austin Nola, Kyle Lewis, Justin Dunn, Alex Young, Zac Gallen, Domingo Leyba, Josh Rojas

Insert/short-print cards: 6 (all in gallery below with some base)
Short-prints (Nos. 401-500) (3) – Hunter Renfroe, Miguel Sano, David Dahl
New-age Performers (1) – Austin Meadows
Then & Now (1) – Fergie Jenkins & Stephen Strasburg
Scratch Off (1) – Yordan Alvarez (damaged -- black material on front and scratched up on inside)

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Clubhouse Collection Relics (1) – J.T. Realmuto

What's Buzz-worthy: A Relic saved this box but it's nothing in comparison to how we started today's marathon, further reinforcing to me that the much-bigger upside to ripping hobby (at its present price) is the way to go this year. The Yordan Alvarez/Aristides Aquino RC is always going to be a fun find in a blaster here but the SPs -- though stacked with stars -- were brutal here. Check out Hour 1 for a sweeter Heritage experience. I like the look of the Relics this year -- especially compared to the rest of the pack -- but it really, really, really, feels like the blasters need more to them. Perhaps a retail-only per-pack parallel or something? Imagine that black border as blue or red ...

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: B (a Relic helped here, but inserts/SPs were rough)
Fun Grade: B- (blasters need more inserts or variety ... big-time)

What's next? BuzzMania 3 -- a marathon of wrestling breaks -- arrives on April 3. Be here.

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